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  • 1942
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    Four Methods of Flush Riveting

    Four Methods of Flush Riveting

    3.70 1942 HD

    Flush riveting is a way of connecting two pieces of sheet metal together, using rivets whose heads do not protrude above the surface of the metal. In...

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  • 1970
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    Espolio

    Espolio

    7.00 1970 HD

    A BAFTA award nominated animation based on a poem by Earle Birney and a painting by El Greco. The theme concerns the responsibility of the innovator...

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  • 1990
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    The Phoenix

    The Phoenix

    5.00 1990 HD

    The ancient myth of the phoenix, the legendary bird with the amazing power of self-regeneration, is reborn with a modern twist. In this animated...

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  • 2010
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    Mighty Jerome

    Mighty Jerome

    7.00 2010 HD

    In 1959, at just nineteen years of age, Harry Jerome was Canada's most promising track and field star, and was on his way to the Olympics in Rome. By...

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  • 1974
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    Les « troubbes » de Johnny

    Les « troubbes » de Johnny

    1 1974 HD

    A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather...

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  • 1970
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    Sad Song of Yellow Skin

    Sad Song of Yellow Skin

    7.00 1970 HD

    A film about the people of Saigon told through the experiences of three young American journalists who, in 1970, explored the consequences of war and...

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  • 1967
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    The Times That Are

    The Times That Are

    6.40 1967 HD

    Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the...

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  • 2018
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    A Short Film About Tegan & Sara

    A Short Film About Tegan & Sara

    1 2018 HD

    In this joyful portrait, filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming animates the formative days and musical career of Calgary-born identical twins Tegan and Sara...

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  • 2021
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    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

    Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

    9.00 2021 HD

    Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and...

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  • 1992
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    A Passage from Burnt Islands

    A Passage from Burnt Islands

    1 1992 HD

    In his crusade for literacy, principal Ray Brown enlisted the help of the community and broke through the cycle of illiteracy in a small Newfoundland...

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  • 1939
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    The Royal Visit

    The Royal Visit

    1 1939 HD

    This feature documentary offers a complete record of the 1939 Royal Tour of Canada by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The film opens as the royal...

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  • 1962
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    Nahanni

    Nahanni

    8.00 1962 HD

    The legend of a lost gold mine and a river in the Northwest Territories that lures men to their doom. Albert Faille, an aging prospector, has set out...

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  • 2008
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    Griefwalker

    Griefwalker

    1 2008 HD

    Documentary about Harvard-trained theologian Stephen Jenkinson, a grief counselor who teaches that death empowers us to live and that we must not...

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  • 1973
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    Cry of the Wild

    Cry of the Wild

    6.00 1973 HD

    Bill Mason imparts his affection for the big northern timber wolves and the pure-white Arctic wolves. Filmed over three years in the Northwest...

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  • 1963
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    Christmas Cracker

    Christmas Cracker

    7.00 1963 HD

    Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells,"...

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  • 2000
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    Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment

    Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment

    6.00 2000 HD

    A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the...

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  • 1951
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    Royal Journey

    Royal Journey

    6.00 1951 HD

    A documentary account of the five-week visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada and the United States in the fall of 1951....

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  • 2020
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    The Magnitude of All Things

    The Magnitude of All Things

    1 2020 HD

    Filmmaker Jennifer Abbott explores the emotional and psychological dimensions of the climate crisis and the relationship between grief and hope in...

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  • 1980
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    Hard Oil!

    Hard Oil!

    1 1980 HD

    The story of the early Canadian oil industry from its start in Petrolia and Oil Springs, Ontario, from about 1850 to 1900. Dramatic re-creations...

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  • 2006
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    Becoming 13

    Becoming 13

    1 2006 HD

    Explores the intimidating terrain of girlhood by following three 12-year-olds over the period of one year. As these girls move from childhood to...

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